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A "Not So Funny" Joke

Title (Dublin Core)

A "Not So Funny" Joke

Description (Dublin Core)

When Covid-19 hit I was a senior in high school and had a few months till I graduated. Through the beginning of March 2020, everyone was making jokes about "corona time" and fake coughing, leading to many memes and tiktok jokes about it. It was funny when it wasn't serious and didn't seem like such a threat, but over the next week it became a lot more serious. My school emailed us saying there is no more school, in person, on March 11, 2020. We had to switch to online learning through zoom, and were forced to end off our senior year just like that. Through all my high school years I watched seniors have their fun by doing senior pranks, winning school color war, going to prom and having sun senior activities and trips! I was looking forward to this so much, and when these events were so close to happening, they were now not able to. We had to stay home for months with a city wide curfew and everywhere you went you had to wear a mask and gloves because you didn't know how easily this virus spread. Every time I would go food shopping for my mother, my father made me put all my clothing that I wore to the store straight into the laundry, and I had to take a shower. My mom also enforced wiping down every item bought with a Clorox wipe so that it was sanitized. The world was becoming scary. This quickly became a reality and it was a shock to everyone because it was all just a joke and nobody took it serious in the beginning.
sophomore majoring in psychology

Date (Dublin Core)

March 10, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

anonymous

Partner (Dublin Core)

Brooklyn College

Type (Dublin Core)

meme

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Permalink

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Humor
English Social Media (including Memes)
English Social Distance
English Consumer Culture (shopping, dining...)
English Cities & Suburbs

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

school
family
grocery
shopping
sanitation

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

school
family

Collection (Dublin Core)

Humor

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/02/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/09/2022
05/04/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

03/10/2020

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Brooklyn College

This item was submitted on March 2, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story With Us” on the site “Brooklyn College New York”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/brooklyncollege

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